A Karzer was a designated lock-up or detention room to incarcerate students as a punishment, within the jurisdiction of some institutions of learning in Germany and German-language universities abroad
The Karzer at Göttingen University
Graffiti in the Heidelberg Karzer
Engraving by Winthrop Pickard Bell on a cell door in the Karzer of the University of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, is a public research university in the German city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony. Founded in 1734 by the Electorate of Ha
Karzer
…excessive consumption of alcohol. Karzers have been preserved at the universities of Heidelberg, Jena, Bonn, Marburg, , Tübingen, Freiberg, Greifswald, Göttingen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, and at Tartu, Estonia. The Karzer in Göttingen was known, after the Pedell Brühbach…
George II of Hanover, founder and first president of the university
Alte Aula (Great Hall), also Karzer, at Wilhelmsplatz (built in 1835–1837)
The interior of the university Aula
Mathematicians celebrating Siegel's Ph.D. graduation, June 1920 at Göttingen: Grandjot, Bessel-Hagen, Rogosinski, Ness, Windau, Siegel (in the trolley), Walfisz, Krull, Emersleben, Kopfermann, Hedwig Wolff, Boskowits, Kneser.